I heard that tour during the rendezvous were on a lottery or drawing basis.

JK, I've never seen it close up, but, it does'nt look anything like that while viewing it through binoculars from the highway. It was featured on Wild Nevada, a travel show that used to be on Sunday evenings on the local pbs station, and it looked like the picture.

My cats are cuter than your grandkids!

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Sail Man wrote:Man made from a drilling accident? Were they drilling through the rock formations? Or are they the result of the accident?

I would guess the result of the accident; the hot water dissolving minerals on the way up out of the earth and those same minerals precipitating quite quickly when they hit the cold air. The same process (with water, not air) makes those underwater "smokers."

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That picture almost doesn't look real. If it really looks like that in person, it would definitely be worth seeing.

It is unreal. It does look like that. It doesn't look like that after several thousand people have been there for a day and stir up all the soft mud at the bottom of the six (seven?) different pools which are fed by the waters though.

The property has been closed for years and as I understand it family squabbles resulted in the property being placed into probate or some other legal limbo until a final resolution could come about.

I can tell you it is one hell of a place to go swimming in the summer under a full moon.

apparently, from what I've heard, it was accidentally drilled by a farmer looking for water-along time ago. the water is a perfect temp for swimming ( in the outer pools that is ) but close to the geyser itself is really slippery/muddy.

One rumor says resort- but I know a few property owners in the area and they would have to be informed and as yet no permits have been applied for,
The other rumor is the owners of Fly Geyser are looking to inflate their land value in order to bargain with BLM for other land to develop.

A few years back I took a class on the history of the Black Rock Desert. Part of the class was a field trip that included Fly Geyser. We got up close and personal with the geyser. The area at the base is very slippery and slimy but absolutely fascinating. Glad I was wearing water proof hiking boots. And yes, the colors are brilliant.

You know it's going to be a bad day when you jump out of bed and miss the floor.

It'll not be used to hold the event. The size of the property is but a fraction of the size of the current event boundary.

Not likely to be a tourist center either. I've heard unofficially that the site is envisioned to be a place to hold retreats, meetings, gatherings, etc on a smaller, more intimate scale. Owning that property also invests the owner/tenants with a good deal of local clout insofar as community input the next time some large out-of-state entity wants to build a coal fired power plant. The last plan to build one suggested a very real potential for disruption of water tables in and around the playa edge which is where the hot springs are located.

The area is a significant flyway resting area for migrating birds from around the world. I just don't see this as something that would be exploited by building a large, grandiose facility for the sake of a tourist attraction.